Fantastical histories for modern feminists
My new book, “The Vitruvian Mask”, is coming April 7 to major retailers, but the ebook is available NOW at #Smashwords for immediate purchase and reading! #presale
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I just got home from my first plane trip in close to five years. It was a bit nervewracking tbh. I was happy to be home and even happier to see this.
Yep, it’s the very first print copy of The Vitruvian Mask. I was really tired so my happy dance was more of a happy wiggle. It looks really good in person, with no issues. It’s a book! With words! MY words. Oh my.
This blog post on increasing your word count is really up my alley. I am such an under writer. Or maybe just concise. Heh heh.
These 5 tips will actually improve a book, I think. It’s not about padding it with unnecessary words. I think the one that works well for me is adding a sideplot or two.
This time last year, I thought my newest New Adult speculative fiction work-in-progress about the collective subconscious and evil corporations was finished and ready for the world. Since then, I have gotten sidetracked by the release of my first novel entitled The Black Oracle and by the launching of my full-time writing career. During all this time, I […]
5 Ways to Stretch Your Word Count
I wanted the covers for the Roboticist of Versailles books to match so needed to redesign The Archimedean Heart. I had a lot of fun collaborating with my daughter on cover designs.
What do you think? What kind of book do you think it is?
Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.
How do I choose one? How about updating my bullet journal, the To Do list of all To Do lists.
Here’s the cover for the Vitruvian Mask. What do you think?
The Vitruvian Mask, the full sequel to the Archimedean Heart is FINALLY done. As in ready to publish. <shocked face>
With many thanks to my extremely talented editor AJ Sikes and my kind and inspirational readers, Dover Whitecliff and Sharon Cathcart.
Here’s what it’s about:
The electric lights of Paris have been extinguished.
1882. The Naturalist revolution is over. Adelaide, once Doctor-Scientist for the old queen of France, was on the losing side. Now she’s hiding from the new king’s Police Sécrète.
Pregnant and alone, she seeks refuge in a Parisian hospital but things have changed there too. What was once a cathedral of Science is now a bastion of ignorance and superstition.
The battlefield veterans whose Augmented prosthetics she once created are now shunned by the new regime and come to the hospital for her help. But her nemesis and the father of her child has returned to France and threatens to reveal her to the authorities.
Can Adelaide repair her Augmented patients without losing her freedom … or her life?
The Vitruvian Mask continues the story of Adelaide Coumain, the Roboticist of Versailles, that began in The Archimedean Heart.
Coming soon: the cover reveal. Then a special giveaway for my subscribers.
The Vitruvian Mask, the next episode in the saga of the Roboticist of Versailles, will be published next year (WOOHOO!) so I thought it time to collect all of the those stories in one page on the blog. Everything from the early origin stories of Adelaide Coumain, the Roboticist of Versailles, to her most recent adventures can be accessed from that page. And there will soon be bonus content. Yes, free stories!
Pandemic time is weird. Hoping the pandemic is waning and life can be, I dunno, normal-ish?
So what have you been up to?
I wish I could say I had spent the lockdown producing like mad but nope. I survived. I didn’t get sick. But I didn’t finish a book nor did I start one. But I am crawling out of my creative void and editing the Vitruvian Mask! Stay tuned.
As a White woman, it’s been horrifying to confront all of the violence towards Black people in the U.S. Silently watching is no longer an option for those of good conscience. But how to do it right, without causing even more harm to People of Color and without being some kind of White Saviour?
This article helped sort out some of that for me. If you’re interested in helping but are unsure how, read the article.
via Dear White People, This is What We Want You to Do
#blacklivesmatter
BJ Sikes, author 